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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MirrorCaptainMike: [QB] Great Minds do some things Alike, Timo.. I first tried to assign the Aerfen to the Agilis-class about ten years ago in my shiplists. btw, heres some relevant text from the novel, which i innocently found somewhere. fans of Masao's work take note of the paint scheme comments.. [QUOTE]Originally novelzumized by Vonda "N." McIntyre: [qb]The second ship curved up from beneath the station, and with a sudden shock of perspective Kirk could see, by comparison with the tiny scarlet speck of the other craft, the sheer immense bulk of Aleph Prime. Of course the station was large, it had to be; it held half a million intelligent beings, human as well as other life-forms. Sulu magnified the approaching ship, and Kirk had a brief glimpse of a tantalizingly familiar shape, painted quite unmilitarily in the colors of a phoenix eagle, before the picture dissolved and the video portion of the communication appeared on the screen. �Hunter!� Kirk said involuntarily. �Aerfen to Enterprise,� said the other starship�s captain. �Come in, Jim, is that you?� She paused. [/qb][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally novelzumized by Vonda "N." McIntyre: [qb]The transmission faded. By now Hunter�s ship had swung far enough up the face of Aleph Prime to present its side to the Enterprise. Sulu magnified it again and gazed at it rapturously. �Captain Hunter and Aerfen,� he said in awe. He glanced back at Kirk. �You know her, Captain?� �We�.�.�. went to school together.� Kirk had never seen Sulu in quite such a state of hero-worship; Kirk did not think Sulu could have been more surprised if D�Artagnan himself, flexing his �p�e and twirling the end of his mustache, had appeared and spoken to him. And far from being amused, Kirk understood completely how Mr. Sulu felt. He felt that way himself, and with far more reason. Sulu moved the Enterprise expertly into a stable orbit around Aleph Prime. Relative to the plane of the star system, Aerfen circled Aleph in a polar orbit. Instead of choosing a vacant level and inserting the larger ship into equatorial orbit, Sulu used a bit of extra time and a bit of extra fuel to position his ship so that, from the bridge, Aerfen would remain in view as long as it kept to its present track. Sulu let its sleek lines fill his gaze. It was much smaller than the Enterprise, for it was a fighter. Its design presented the smallest possible cross-section to an enemy in head-on approach, so it appeared to be streamlined. It was painted a fierce scarlet, with points of black and silver. It looked like a swift, powerful avian predator. As he put the finishing touches on the Enterprise�s orbit, the relative orientation of the fighter to the starship changed slightly, and he could see a long bright gash in Aerfen�s side, where the paint had been vaporized by an enemy weapon. �It�s seen some action,� he said softly. Recently, too, he thought. He knew intuitively that Hunter would not let her ship stay scarred any longer than she absolutely had to. [/qb][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally novelzumized by Vonda "N." McIntyre: [qb]�You didn�t get orders to come to Aleph, did you?� Jim asked. �No. This is the only outpost in my sector that will paint Aerfen the way I want it, without throwing stupid regulations at me. And my crew likes it for liberty. Gods know they deserve some right now. How about you?�[/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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